Saturday, August 11, 2012

6th Bead Soup Blog Party! Soup's ready!

Hi Y'all and welcome to the 6th Bead Soup Blog Party reveal #2 hosted by the beautiful and talented Lori Anderson. A big thank you goes to Lori and her husband for the hard work in pairing everyone up to make this party a success. I hope y'all are ready to hop around and view 126 participants blogs, I am sure you are going to be dazzled by some amazingly beautiful pieces.

This is my second BSBP. The first time I participated was in the August/September 2011 BSBP and my partner was the beautiful and talented Lola Surwillo of Bead Lola Bead blog, which she is in this reveal too, so be sure to go by and see what she created. This time my partner is Sabine Dittrich of Perlen Dschungel blog. Sabine lives in Munich, Germany and makes gorgeous glass beads which she sells in her Etsy shop. Please go by Sabine's blog and see what she has created with this bead soup I sent to her.

As I stated above Sabine makes gorgeous glass beads. They are truly amazing I only wish that my photo could have shown how beautiful they really are. Here is the bead soup Sabine sent to me.

So beautiful I love, love, love them!

Here is what I made with these beautiful beads.

I used three different bead stitches in this necklace, flat spiral at the top, herringbone spiral that the pendant is hanging from, and peyote for the bail.

In the flat spiral I used 4mm silver crystal roundels, 3mm gold roundels and blue iris size 11 seed beads. I chose these colors to bring out the colors in the glass beads.

I carried on the same color scheme in the herringbone spiral and the peyote bail. The peyote bail is inspired by a pattern in Diane Fitzgerald's Shaped Beadwork. Isn't that glass pendant gorgeous?

I strung most of the other glass beads onto flex beading wire to make a bracelet to go with my necklace.

I used the two sandy colored glass beads for a pair of earrings. I made the ear wires, they turned out a little funky, but I like them.

I had two glass beads left, so I took a piece of silver plated wire and made a bail for the bead with the bumps, I love this bead it is my favorite of the glass beads. I made the bail so the bead could spin like a wheel. I call it my fidget wheel. I hung the fidget wheel pendant from a strand of Marsha Neal Studio silk ribbon and a piece of 1mm leather cord, I tied two large roundels to the ends of the silk and leather and Ta Da a simple, but yet pretty necklace.

A closer look at the Fidget Wheel pendant.

I hope that I did not disappoint Sabine, or you, with what I created with her beautiful glass beads.

Please go check out the other participant's blogs to see what they all have created in reveal #2 of the BSBP!

Love what you mad Therese, how could it disappoint the first necklace is just beautiful with that unusual focal bead, and the bracelet is great I like your silk ribbon and leather cord for the pendant beads to, well done.Jackie

I am not disappointed at all, dear Therese! Your pieces are all so lovely and I am really overwhelmed how many you came up with. Amazing work!The first necklace is just a dream! And I do love your bracelet and the earrings. They all fit together so perfectly.Congratulations on that awesome artwork.Love, Sabine

Therese - that first necklace is spectacular!!! I love the chain, I love the bail, I love the way you incorporated the beads from your soup. It's just stunning. The coordinating pieces are fantastic too!!! Beautiful work!!!

Oh Therese you have done awesome!! You better watch out or they will be missing!! I can find where you live!! Oh my dear you always amaze me with your bead weaving and way to go working with wire!! Your fidget necklace...love it! Big grin on my face here with all the beauties.

Therese, All I can say is WOW! Everything is just fantastic and beautiful. Your creativeness in the first necklace is a show stopper. Hmmm might be worth a trip to Alabama in the dead of night (what are the directions to your house???????) lol

Lovely, I am always impressed by people who have the patience to seed bead. I think you did a great job with your soup![PS you might want to consider removing your captcha during the BSBH some people won't bother to comment]

I can't find one word for these, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, spectacular and the list goes on. I love what you created, the first necklace and the fidget wheel amazing! Your work is always so beautiful Therese!

Girl! You totally rocked that soup! Love, love, love the first piece. Your weaving choices were a perfect complement to the beads. (I'd love to know the pattern for the bail!) The strung bracelet is just gorgeousness all over the place, and I know I'd be wearing those earrings ALL the time. I do love the fidget necklace, I have a similar one that has a bell inside a bead, so I know just what you're talking about. :) Awesome job!!!

Gorgeous!! I love that first necklace, each part is so pretty and that bail, so perfect! I was trying to find instructions for just that type and struck out, but man you made an awesome one. Great job!

Oh my Therese you created some amazingly brillant pieces! That first necklace is absolutley breathtaking! I love the simplicity of the second necklace and the earrings and bracelet look like so much fun to wear. Girl you did amazing work with the goodies you received!

Therese, I've been so eager to see what you'd create, and as expected, they're all wonderful! Love the mix of spirals in the first piece, and the reminder that sometimes "ta da simple" is exactly the way to go. Terrific!

Therese- Whew! It's taken me long enough to get over here and I'm so sorry for that. However, it was definitely worth the wait. Your first necklace made me gasp with delight and I could barely pull my eyes from it to scroll down and see what else you created. WOW! It's totally an eye-catcher. I love the sparkle you added and all that texture. So yummy!! Your bracelet and earrings are also FAB!! Lastly, I adore that you created a fidget necklace. I play with my jewelry too and love it when it's intended to be played with. You absolutely knocked this challenge out of the park. And I'm not surprised. Your work is always wonderful. :)

Therese, I love everything. Beautiful seed beading. I love how you did the bracelet, it is perfect to showcase the beautiful glass beads, they are a work of art on their own. Your fidget wheel is great, I have done variations of that also.

What fun beads you had to work with - Sabine's beads are gorgeous! And I love seeing how you use them.

I'm more of a peyote stitch and right angle weave kind of girl, but every time I see your herringbone, I remember - oh yeah! That's a great stitch too! If you see more herringbone in upcomping work, you'll know you're partially to blame, er credit! :)

That soup your partner sent you is amazing! I'm so in awe of people who can create beautiful beads like that, as well as people who can bead weave like you did in your first necklace-Not only is that jewelry, but it's wearable art! :)

I love all your other pieces-I think you did a magnificent job on them all!

Therese, you sure received some beautiful beads!!! I love all of your creations, especially the first necklace - it is a show-stopper! I think I gasped when I first saw it, it is just so incredible. You really have a way with beadwork!Hey...looks like you were so close by last month heading up to PA. What a great time meeting fellow beaders from the online world - that's great that you had the chance to do that!

Therese, I like very much all of your pieces, but the first necklace is absolutely fabolous!!!! It's one of my favoritest pieces from this Bead Soup Blog Party (from the blogs I've visited until now)!!!

Lovely pieces. I particularly like the detail of the beaded bail in the first necklace. The fidget wheel made me giggle - it's lovely to look at and I'm sure it's a joy to wear (I love fidget jewellery).

I'm only just getting around to checking out the hop :) I love how you used the three different stitches in the main necklace. They compliment each other very well.When I click on the link for the list of other participants however,the link sends me to a page that says doesn't exist. Was the list removed for some reason? I would like to visit the rest of the blogs on the hop....

Hi Therese, You have been busy! I had so much fun going through all your posts I missed recently.... So much beautiful work and all sorts of inspiration to look at. I love what you did with Sabine's handmade glass bead, I think you framed it really well: the focal is so nicely accented by your design. Hugs,Kinga

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About Me

Hello, my name is Therese and I live in the great state of Alabama. I love to make jewelry in my spare time. I started making jewelry in 2005. I was looking through a beading magazine and saw a necklace that I fell in love with and just had to make, so I did, and I have been hooked ever since. Along with jewelry making I crochet, paint mostly on glass items, make clothes, quilt, counted cross stitch, and a few other crafts. I'm a mother of one, a handsome young man that is all grown up and on his own.